Band 7 Discharge Liaison Nurse

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated nurse who is passionate to work with in the Children’s Rapid Response Team (RR) to ensure high quality, specialist nursing care to children and families in their own home.  In order to prevent inappropriate hospital admission/attendances and shortening length of hospital stay whilst providing greater choice to families around chosen place of care.

The successful applicant will work as part of a well-established dynamic team who provide specialist advice and support to children, young people and their families and all members of the health care teams involved in the child/young person’s care. You will work along side Children’s Community nursing (CCN) and Palliative Care Teams (PC).

Full time/part time/flexible hours of working will be considered at interview.

We would encourage anyone considering applying for this post to visit the team prior to application and interview and to discuss the role with Team Leader – Rebecca Carless on 07784 007 462 or [email protected] or the Clinical Service Manager - Rachael Williams on 07974 785 098 or [email protected].

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You will work very closely with the Co-Ordinator for Children’s Community Nursing and Rapid Response to ensure a high standard of care is offered to children/young people. You will support the Clinical co-ordinator with the clinical and professional management of the Children’s Rapid Response Service (CRRS) to ensure safe and effective care delivery. Overseeing the effective and efficient use of skills and resources to ensure the team and the service is organised to meet the needs of the patients and their families.

You will be proactive in promoting early discharge of children and young people already known to the CCN and PC Teams, reducing the length of hospital stay.  You will work with the Children’s Rapid Response team and acute teams to identify children and young people that could be cared for at home where it would be clinically safe to do so.

You will be expected at times of extreme pressure within the acute to work as directed to facilitate a reduced length of stay for children and young people that are potentially not known already to the CCN and PC Team.

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

IMPORTANT

• Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.

• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.